02-03-2009, 08:23 PM | #1 |
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Watched Any Good Books Lately? HarperCollins Tries 'Video Books'
For those who don't have the time to listen to an audiobook, let alone read a hardback or e-Book, HarperCollins brings you: the video book. Perhaps fittingly, the first author to get the video treatment is BuzzMachine's Jeff Jarvis, whose book, What Would Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Do?, will be available in all the other formats as well, WSJ notes. News Corp.'s HarperCollins has been noted for its digital experiments the past few years, but it's still being cautious about the prospects for video books. It expects to produce about six titles for video in house, which will be available for download on iPods and iPhones. Authors will receive 25 percent of the sales, about the same for e-Books. HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray didn't care to guess how many v-books the company will sell.
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02-03-2009, 09:08 PM | #2 |
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But....wouldn't that be a movie?
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02-03-2009, 09:58 PM | #3 |
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02-03-2009, 10:40 PM | #4 |
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02-03-2009, 11:07 PM | #5 |
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Is this a video and text combination? I wouldn't mind that for some textbooks. Lectures and animations can really help with some subjects.
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02-03-2009, 11:19 PM | #6 |
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I think this may have some merit.
One of my most pleasant experiences was watching...I think it was Eileen Atkins, "perform" an adaption of Virginia Woolf's extended essay A Room of One's Own. Now, the essay in itself is certainly a pleasant read, but its performance (like an aural performance of a book) added another dimension to it, and, in my opinion, suitably enhanced and enlivened it. This "lecture-style" of performance is, to me, quite interesting (I similarly was rapt in the late Spalding Gray's Terrors of Pleasure) and I can see other such notions, such as it extending to the still-popular "storyteller" performance. Cheers, Marc |
02-04-2009, 02:53 AM | #7 |
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Another great series was "Talking Heads" by Alan Bennett, which was produced by BBC2. Each episode was a thirty-minute monologue which had some terrific actors.
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02-04-2009, 03:28 AM | #8 |
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Oy. $10 for 23 minutes?
What the hell is wrong with book publishers? "here's an interesting idea... Let's kill it by pricing it ridiculously." Welcome to eBooks a decade ago. |
02-04-2009, 04:37 AM | #9 |
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02-04-2009, 05:02 AM | #10 |
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I really can't see it catching on, but stranger things have happened! |
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02-04-2009, 08:16 AM | #12 |
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How odd "Instead of reading directly from the book, [...] Jarvis runs through the basic concepts in the book"
I could see Jackanory-style video books catching on, but not summaries of the basic plot or themes. Quote:
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02-04-2009, 09:22 AM | #14 |
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The only use I can see for this is as an alternative to cliff notes.
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